SECURITY FIRM TO THE RESCUE

Article in the Liverpool Echo

Overview

This article decribes how were are on amber alert and waiting for Tony Blair to give us the go-ahead to enter Iraq. Peter Quinlivan, MD of Crime Management Services.

Liverpool Security firm to the rescue.

SECURITY experts from Merseyside are to travel to Iraq to help restore law and order to its major cities.

Liverpool private security firm Crime Management is expected to be the first UK company allowed into the country to ensure the smooth delivery of humanitarian aid.

More than 30 of the 56-strong team are from Merseyside, and everyone is a former member of the military or police. The final number will include former RUC officers.

The firm say it is awaiting the green light from the Government, which they expect to receive within the next few weeks.

Organiser and Crime management boss Peter Quinlivan said:“We are on amber alert and are waiting for Tony Blair to give us the go-ahead.”

Once the team gets Government funding, staff will go out to cities including Baghdad and Basra for between one to six weeks at a time before changing shifts.

Taking instructions from ex-chief of the Police Superintendents' Association Lord Brian McKenzie, they will help protect former government buildings, terminals and commercial areas and employ Iraqi people to help deliver the aid.

Mr Quinlivan, 38, a former Royal Engineer, has 15 years experience in the security business and was involved in the delivery of aid to Kosovo in 1999.

The father-of-two says his experiences will help him prepare for Iraq. He says his two sons, Peter, 13, and Nicholas, 9, are “getting used to their dad doing mad things.”

He said: “We expect to find a lot of chaos but I have seen it before. I went through every emotion in life in Kosovo and it was my proudest moment when we succeeded there.”